The US has Spain, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Britain, Australia, and several other countries in our "Coalition of the Willing". France has...well, France:

Finally, we come to the Ivory Coast, where a rebellion broke out in September 2002 against the dictatorial government of Laurent Gbagbo. The subsequent fighting killed thousands and split the country in two, with Muslim rebels holding the north. To prevent even worse violence and to protect French expatriates, France sent troops and then negotiated a power-sharing agreement between the government and rebels. Only five months after its troops arrived did France seek and get U.N. ratification — exactly the strategy the U.S. has pursued in Iraq.

Now 4,000 French and 1,200 West African soldiers are enforcing the cease-fire agreement. In other words, the force is 80% French. Roughly the same percentage of foreign troops in Iraq are American, which must mean that the Ivory Coast intervention is just as "unilateral" as the one in Iraq. But so what? The French are performing a valuable service, just as the Americans are in Iraq. They should be thanked for stepping forward, not criticized for not getting more nations to sign up.

Unilateralism is so simplisme.

(Thanks Glenn)